Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Schneier on Security
The TSA Proves its Own Irrelevance
Have you wondered what $1.2 billion in airport security gets you? The TSA has compiled its own "Top 10 Good Catches of 2011": 10) Snakes, turtles, and birds were...
From Schneier on Security
Time to Patch Your HP Printers
It's a serious vulnerability. Note that this is the research that was mistakenly reported as allowing hackers to set your printer on fire. Here's a list of all...
From Schneier on Security
Improving the Security of Four-Digit PINs on Cell Phones
The author of this article notices that it's often easy to guess a cell phone PIN because of smudge marks on the screen. Those smudge marks indicate the four PIN...
From Schneier on Security
Liars and Outliers News
The Liars and Outliers webpage is live. On it you can find links to order both paper and e-book copies from a variety of online retailers, and signed copies directly...
From Schneier on Security
Newly Released Papers from NSA Journals
The papers are old, but they have just been released under FOIA.
From Schneier on Security
Sending Coded Messages with Postage Stamps
The history of coded messages in postage-stamp placement. I wonder how prevalent this actually was. My guess is that it was more a clever idea than an actual...
From Schneier on Security
Allocating Security Resources to Protect Critical Infrastructure
Alan T. Murray and Tony H. Grubesic, "Critical Infrastructure Protection: The Vulnerability Conundrum," Telematics & Informatics, 29 (February 2012): 56
From Schneier on Security
Applying Game Theory to Cyberattacks and Defenses
Behzad Zare Moayedi, Mohammad Abdollahi Azgomi, "A Game Theoretic Framework for Evaluation of the Impacts of Hackers Diversity on Security Measures," Reliability...
From Schneier on Security
Studying Airport Security
Alan A. Kirschenbaum, Michele Mariani, Coen Van Gulijk, Sharon Lubasz, Carmit Rapaport, and Hinke Andriessen, "Airport Security: An Ethnographic Study," Journal...
From Schneier on Security
Tying Up Phone Lines as a Cyberattack Tactic
There's a service that can be hired to tie up target phone lines indefinitely. The article talks about how this can be used as a diversionary tactic to mask a...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Marconi's Wireless in 1903
A great story: Yet before the demonstration could begin, the apparatus in the lecture theatre began to tap out a message. At first, it spelled out just one word...
From Schneier on Security
Butt Identification
Here's a new biometric: how you sit: ...researchers there developed a system that can recognize a person by the backside when the person takes a seat. The system...
From Schneier on Security
The Collar Bomb Robbery
Really interesting story of the collar-bomb robbery -- and subsequent investigation -- from 2003.
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Subway's POS System
The story of how Subway's point-of-sale system was hacked for $3 million.
From Schneier on Security
Merry Christmas from the TSA
Cupcakes deemed security threat: Rebecca Hains says she was going through security at the airport in Las Vegas when a TSA agent pulled her aside and said the cupcake...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Goldman Sachs and the Vampire Squid Metaphor
It's a metaphor that will not die. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.
From Schneier on Security
Multiple Protocol Attacks
In 1997, I wrote about something called a chosen-protocol attack, where an attacker can use one protocol to break another. Here's an example of the same thing...
From Schneier on Security